Gally PR Fact #1: ASL Can Do What English Can't ...
Kalalau's Korner Given the realities of recent protests at Gallaudet University, ASL merged as a powerful language that could best illustrate Deaf Culture, which the English language could never, ever do. ASL can be what English can?t be a tool that prevails at Gallaudet.Gallaudet University PR had disclosed numerous words and labels in best possible English to the media that were [...]
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From a hearing ally
Bay Area Perspective on Gally There? s an ill wind blowing, and it? s making me sick ...There?s a cold wind blowing in California tonight. Do you feel it?Is it Fall coming to intrude on our 80 degree, sunny, Fremont, California weather? Partly. Is it the fog settling in from our beautiful bay? Maybe. But the wind I feel is not a breeze that tickles the skin. It is an ill wind blowing from the East [...]
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Deaf Ears: The demands of the few test the patience of the...
via link submit "[N]ow that intellectual relativism requires us to talk about "identities" not souls, the protesters have to discover other reasons they should be respected--like the supposed authenticity of "deaf culture." If they think the civil-rights struggles were tough, they may find the battle against common sense to be downright impossible."
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What is Gally BoT doing these days?
Show Me Deaf Community What is Gally BoT doing these days? There should have been more decisions coming and get the house (GU) cleaned up! It seems like it is STILL lack of leadership at top! Brenda Brueggemann needs to GO! She cannot do the job at all!
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Gallaudophobia: Fear of Gallaudet-Style Oppression
Kalalau's Korner First of all, please don?t ask me about curing Gallaudephobia because I know little about it. My interest is in coining the phobia term to describe a type of fear that exists only at Gallaudet University. Yes, it has yet to be found in a reference book or medical paper but it has to be confirmed by the medical profession.Why did I want to come up with a phobia term [...]
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Re: Interim President of Gallaudet
Mishka Zena I think Patti has some excellent ideas. What do you think? Do you have any more ideas? elizabeth 1. Who should be the interim president of Gallaudet University? An interim president must be someone that both Pro-Fernandes supporters and FSSAP Coalition agree to.  (I personally added a “P” for parents to the FSSA Coalition) 2. Why should the [...]
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The Great Equalizer
Drolz Uncensored An article by Dragan Jaksic, CAC Director of Community Education and Enrichment
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deafhood and deaf culture
What's that you said? What I want to do with this post is to put together some background on myself and some of my thoughts on these things. I don't want to feel like I'm continually harping on certain subjects and such, but I find that people interpret my unhappiness with "Deaf culture" as an attack on its legitimacy, when in reality it is something quite different. As I'm writing this [...]
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NPR Interview Transcript: Noah Beckman
BiblioMarket Leader: Gallaudet Protest Sought Equal Treatmentby Joseph Shapiro Noah Beckman is the president of Student Body Government at Gallaudet University.All Things Considered, November 4, 2006 · The tent city was taken down earlier this [...]
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A Personal Revolution in Teaching
Adam Stone In our first training session, Anne imparted to me her personal mantra: “every teacher of the deaf is a teacher of language.” In just a few days, my teaching style would undergo a metamorphosis guided by Anne, who draws from her 35 years of experience in teaching deaf children in England. Five weeks ago, I [...]
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Who?s On First?
DeafDC.com Five years ago and half a world away, I was part of the cast of “Rustle of a Star,” an original play at NTID’s Panara Theatre. I was pleased to, along with my colleague, to re-enact the timeless Abbott and Costello routine, “Who’s On First?” A heavily condensed version follows: A: Who’s on first? C: That’s right. A: [...]
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Native Filipino Sign Language
Jamie Berke (About.com) A nonprofit organization, LINES, is looking for Philippine Deaf Communities in remote areas in the Philippines, to register indigenous signs. If you know any village, where elderly Deaf people live...
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Wanted: CODAS
Jamie Berke (About.com) EmilyStein writes on the forum: Films of Record are carrying out initial research for a film about CODAS (children of deaf parents). We are known for making thoughtful, sensitive and...
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The 3 Hunters
DeafJoke.tv The 3 Hunters by Dan Pineda Three hunters, Clint Eastwood, John Wayne, and a Deaf Cowboy, are gathered around a campfire. The 3 have been drinking and bragging about the virtues of their home states. Suddenly, Clint Eastwood says, "Watch this." He opens a bottle of tequila, takes a swig, tosses it in the air, [...]
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Two vLogs Produced By a CSDR Kid!
Riverside for FSSA Very Cute! Check them out at YouTube.com. A Live Talk With Tyler Berdy About Gallaudet A Live Talk With Tyler Berdy About the Result [...]
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What Now Gallaudet (Part I)
via link submit Universities don’t run the way that businesses do. Although universities have nominal hierarchies in place—the president and provost are responsible for the university as a whole, deans are responsible for their colleges and schools, and department heads are responsible for their departments—those hierarchies aren’t true hierarchies. Universities are run by a [...]
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What Now Gallaudet (Part II)
via link submit The good will and honest intentions of the faculty and administration should result in better decision-making. But when one side demonizes the other—or worse yet, when the faculty or administration drags students, alumni, or outsiders into the fray—then shared governance collapses, and no one wins.
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Interim President of Gallaudet
Mishka Zena Questions of the week: 1. Who should be the interim president of Gallaudet University? 2. Why should the Board of Trustees appoint this person as interim president? 3. For how long should this person be allowed to serve as an interim president? 4. What should this interim president do immediately after her/his appointment? There is a poll related to these questions at [...]
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VIDEO: Tyrone Giordano
Save Deaf Theater Tyrone Giordano in the video below shares his reaction after seeing the video above. Click To Play Tyrone Giordano reacts to the video "let us spell it out for you." [...]
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The Curse of Deafness in Hollywood
Banjo's World The upcoming film, ?Babel? is generating a lot of buzz. Alejandro González Iñárritu directed the movie and written by Guillermo Arriaga. To summarize the plot, two boys in a desert test the range of a rifle, it collides the lives of four separate groups of strangers instantly. This is a movie that is generating a lot of buzz in the film industry and may be somewhere [...]
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LIKE YOU, I TAKE ASL SERIOUSLY!
Kalalau's Korner Many good people build their case against American Sign Language entirely on their own speculations. These people value speculations and are serious about making academics out of them. Unfortunately, many of them have never really studied what ASL does and doesn?t.We the users of ASL, native or near native, take ASL seriously, too. Personally, I?ve spent more than 40 [...]
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Deaf Survivors and Witnesses to 9/11
Mike McConnell Check this movie preview of an upcoming film by Jade Film. They produced a motion picture called 9/11 Fear in Silence: The Forgotten Underdogs. It's about the stories of deaf and hard of hearing survivors and witnesses of 9/11 who tell their stories through their eyes and hands. Was silence that almost killed them or was it neglect by other people who didn't know any [...]
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Time magazine of October 30th, 2006.
The Deaf Sherlock Go out and buy the October 30th, 2006 issue of TIME magazine. (price $ 3.95). Turn it to page 64. The title is "When Silence Isn't Golden". While I'm not going to pick apart the entire article (too many inconsistances in it), there was one thing that literally grabbed me and I'm sure the reader won't bother to read the rest of the article once you see Fernandes and [...]
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REMINDER: GATHERING ON 11/05/06 FOR CENTRAL FLORIDIANS FOR...
Central Floridians For FSSA Greetings Central Floridians for FSSAJust a friendly reminder we will have a gathering tomorrow, November 5th, 2006, at:Central Florida Zoological Park (Sanford, FL) 3755 N. West 17-92 Lake Monroe, FL 32747 [link] IS NO ENTERANCE FEE - LOOK FOR US WITH YELLOW/BLUE BALLOONS AND GUFSSA SIGNS - LOOKING FORWARD TO SEEING ALL OF YOU!Food [...]
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Deaf Father's Two Advices
Kalalau's Korner First Advice:Carl:There are some people, who may not understand or dislike your blog. Ignore them. They want your blog in simple English. Don't give in to their request.Remember: The writings of the philosophers, like Aristotle, Philo, Maimonides (my favorite), Voltaire, Karl Marx, Bernard Shaw are hard to read, but still studied, praised and condemned.Keep up your [...]
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